Author: Slater Wold
Date: 05:28:07 11/30/01
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On November 30, 2001 at 06:18:26, Gordon Rattray wrote: >On November 30, 2001 at 02:29:12, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On November 29, 2001 at 21:09:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>OK... that is horrible, and it does show that there is little speedup, >>>rather than a KNPS computation problem. >>> >>>No explanation on why this is so of course. But for this position, you >>>are certainly correct. It is ugly. >> >>Yes. The most I have *EVER* seen from DF is about a 1.4x speedup. This is one >>of the worst cases. >> >>The first thing Chessbase will ask you, of course, is to go to task manager, and >>look at the CPU time. It is always 100%. (Being both CPU's.) One CPU DF uses >>50%. >> >>I have no explanation, and it seems no one else does either. >> >>I think I was the first to report this back when I first got my 2x1000mhz >>system. No one even seemed to care, including Chessbase. >> >>Very few people have dual systems. And even less have dual AMD's. And even >>less give a damn about chess, much less DF. Perhaps that's why this problem has >>gone on for so long, undetected. > > >Agreed, but it may also work the other way too. If software for duals isn't >particularly good, then there may not be enough of a motive for people to buy a >dual. So the software affectively limits its own market. I've never had a deep program that didn't work. And I've never seen a company claim results so far from the truth. There should be a warning label on the front of Deep Fritz, "Individual Results May Vary". >While Chessbase may not exactly be going bust, in my opinion it isn't exactly >making the most of the market either by pissing people off. I do buy from >Chessbase, but I'm not as keen a customer as I once was. For example, I no >longer trust their marketing claims. I have for the most part, always respected Chessbase. But I've been on a LOT of message boards. I've never seen this many people get together and say, "..hey this is broken, and this sucks.." and the company sit by and do nothing. And I know someone from Chessbase is reading this. It says a LOT about Chessbase. >Gordon
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